Reviews

War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict

It’s an ironic twist that terms such as international law and the laws of war have found a new lease on life through their constant violation in the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

Don’t Get Too Comfortable

By David Rakoff

Ex-pat Canadian and long-time New Yorker David Rakoff is an extremely funny man. This, his second release (following a collection of autobiographical essays called Fraud) is for the most part an extremely funny book.Rakoff, a ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Touch

By Gayleen Froese

Gayleen Froese’s Touch is dark and outlandish, yet compelling in the human intimacy that it captures. This Saskatchewan author’s first novel is an unusual detective story that hinges on the psychic connection between touch and ... Read More »

September 26, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guests of Chance

By Colleen Curran

Guests of Chance begins on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean as heroine Lenore contemplates her life. She’s recently been to the Oscars, she’s a walking pop-culture lexicon, and in the latest in the ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freezeout

By Rick Gadziola

Freezeout, Rick Gadziola’s second Jake Morgan mystery, begins with the murder of Las Vegas mobster Carmine Bonello in 1959. Bonello was out in the desert burying cash when his chauffeur did him in. The rest ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Vanishing Man

By Aaron Bushkowsky

In the first story of his debut collection, Vancouver poet, playwright, and screenwriter Aaron Bushkowsky writes, “I’m working on my first book. Right now. Writing and holding my breath.” This, along with the fact that ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Girls

By Lori Lansens

The first three-quarters of Lori Lansens’ new novel, The Girls, is the best story I’ve read this year. It kept me reading late into the night, and the next day I couldn’t get the characters ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Rust and Bone

By Craig Davidson

There is a familiar pattern to intergenerational politics. The young folk look at their parents and see nothing but bad choices and misguided values. They vow to do things better, to avoid all the old ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Banana Kiss

By Bonnie Rozanski

The frightening world of mental illness is illuminated through Bonnie Rozanski’s fictitious tale of schizophrenic Robin Farber, a young woman whose home is the harsh enclosure of a psychiatric institution. Trapped in a whirlwind of ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

By Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet’s new novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, accurately sees the American invention of the atomic bomb as an unparalleled moment in the history of the human species and the planet. The opening page ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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